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Does 4.2 beta now mean 4.1 jb abandoned?
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To be honest, I don't mind waiting another month for 4.2 to roll around and have the JB for that instead of 4.1. Seems like 4.1 only fixes some bugs, whereas 4.2 adds some features.
Not entirely true. There is an unreleased jailbreak that will work on all devices now and forever - until a new hardware version is released. But this is a tethered jailbreak. There are exploits that can be used for untethered jailbreaks. These can be closed by Apple. So the untethered jailbreak will be version specific while the tethered jailbreak will be version non-specific. Of course this is what I've picked up from Chronic Dev-team's posts. What actually will happen and when, only they know for sure.
4.2 is set to release in November and the exploit being used by the dev team and the chronic dev team is a bootrom based exploit. Apple cannot close it without a hardware refresh.
I thought they posted they're not sure yet if the hardware exploit is going to be a tethered or untethered JB.
So did they confirm its tethered?
Far-freakin' out! Getting hard to stay patient
It's easier to be patient when your iPhone 4 is already jailbroken.
Any bets on how fast apple will update the bootrom...
pretty sure it was in or around a month for the 3Gs
Far-freakin' out! Getting hard to stay patient
That's weird. How does having an erection help your anxiety level?
LOL
Every time you reboot your device you gotta be by a computer and plugged in otherwise its useless and cant use phone until plugged in.
Can't see anyone with any sense 'upgrading' to a tethered jailbreak....totally pointless....really can't see any release going that way!
No, all it means is that there is a second beta for the 4.2 version of the OS
4.1 added several new features, some of them a big deal for some.
4.1 added several new features, some of them a big deal for some.
maturola!! Hows it going buddy? I havn't seen you on these forums in a while! Good to see yah back and posting
Tethered as in connected to a PC to do the JB? If that's what you're saying, then yes I have.
That's right cause you probably used a untethered jb.
If the jb becomes tethered its gonna become completely useless to me, as I cannot rely on the fact if i reboot my phone that im ***** out of luck until i get to a pc..
No, he means you'd need to connect to a computer EVERY time you reboot your phone.
Ok...perhaps we are talking about 2 diff things. When I JB my phone in the past, I had to connect it to my PC via USB and ran quickpwn or something similar that hacked the boot rom. Is that not a tethered JB?
When I did this in the past I could reboot w/o issue. What I couldn't do was wipe it.
No, that's not what "tethered jailbreak" means. There's the web-based jailbreak like jailbreakme.com, there's the regular jailbreak which is what you are describing, and then there's tethered jailbreak, which means you not only have to be connected to a PC during the initial jailbreak, but you have to be connected to a PC each time you reboot/restart your iPhone.
Thats untethered there champ.
tethered works the same way you gotta plug into a PC to Jailbreak it.. but however it hacks into the bootrom or whatever kind of stuff gets done... it gets lost after a normal reboot so you gotta plug back into the pc to get back up and running..
***Dont take my word on that second paragraph****